Verizon Droid 2.2 Update Cannot Stop Me Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:49:38 -0400

So Verizon has recently pushed the Android 2.2 OS to the original Droid phones. In this update Verizon has crippled the new updates, mobile hotspot was one of the hottest features to be released in Froyo (2.2). However Verizon has allowed USB tethering for the data plan, however this does require an extra charge (of course).

However they have missed one key piece, DNS queries can still be routed through the connection. Once I have a processes hammered out I might post a how to on setting up a TCP over DNS instruction so that you can use your handicapped Froyo to route all of your internet use over DNS.

How Cool huh?

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Announcing DNSQuery Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:04:42 -0500

Announcing a new DNS Query toolkit developed exclusively for the Android mobile platform. I have released it in relation to my company Comwired.com  The github presence can be found here http://github.com/pingwin/DNSQuery

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Current Projects Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:16:44 -0500

Currently am working on a number of DNS specific applications, hopefully a couple I can release.

The first being an IO event handler in C, sorta like libevent but without the threading issues, also can discover interfaces for udp handling. Will be helpful for a league of users.

The second project is the next generation of an Android application for testing DNS resolution against a configurable list of resolvers. Will later evolve into being able to run predefined lists of queries and checking responses, sorta like a typical monitoring setup (read nagios) but not as automated.

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Being Away Thu, 3 Sep 2009 12:58:07 -0400

Sorry for the emptiness, I have been quite busy lately. Having relocated the family to Berea, Kentucky has been very taxing on my time and energy. I have some cool stuff I'm working on in erlang and I hopw to be able to make a post about that soon. As well as maybe a C network event driven library for TCP/UDP over IPv4 and IPv6 soon.

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Migrating Servers Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:41:45 -0400

Okay, so I'm nearing a transition in life. Not only is my first baby due 1 month from yesterday, but I also have to migrate one of the largest site's I've ever managed. I can't give any details atm for what it is, or why. But I am moving everything to a cluster of servers configured in Amazon's EC2 Cloud using a few parts of their technologies, which will hopefully expand to some others, that should end up totally rockin, and way cheaper. Currently the binary database for this system is approaching 100 gigabytes. And there are other migration issues at hand in regards to the nature of the network and the data it maintains, but sufficient to say that there is some new data being imported at least every 10 minutes or less.

Each day has shown increase in load, as well to the fact that the imported data stands around 20 million records a day currently and that now we will expand the abstraction of said data from 1 table to 250+ tables. Thank goodness with EC2 I can quickly throw up more instances to handle any load and scale horizontally.

TBH this is probably the first technology that I've been really impressed with in a long time, now the only question is if it can stand up to it's promise.

This isn't my first time messing with the concept of shared resource processing networks. When I was 16 I built a beowulf cluster using computers that were being thrown away by my high school. Mostly Pentium's and 486, but considering I didn't have anything better and the electric bill was paid by my parents at the time I enjoyed the challenge. Granted I never was able to find a use for the network. Then a couple of years ago with 3tera launching their grid I began to research and came up with a couple of theories of how they had done this. I concluded they used a set of common GNU tools, the names of which have long escaped me. C'mon it was like 3 years ago!

Anyway, it's very cool and change is a comin so you better get ready for it!

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